I did a bit of lab work on the handling of Arabic text in PDF, and I thought I would share it with the iText mailing list. I used a Java program based on iText to generate the PDF I used in this survey. I am attaching the source code (arabic_text_in_pdf.java), the generated PDF (arabic_text_in_pdf.pdf), and the report I wrote (arabic_text_in_pdf.Report.pdf).
Great information!!
One thing worth noting is that if you look at Adobe's history of product localizatioin & internationalization, they have already dealt with CJK (Acro3/4), and CE (Central Europe) in Acro6, leaving only the ME market to be handled by a 3rd party and not integrated with the main product line.
It would seem that perhaps the time has come for ME support in the mainstream app...
On a related note, although not currently used by Acrobat, I would recommend that you set the binding direction of the PDF to RTL on any document where the primary language direction is RTL...
Leonard
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